Visual Studio/ Visual Enterprise

[neo1980]

What is the differnece between MS VisualStudio .NET

and MS VisualStudio Enterprise?

[EmuZombie Veteran]

price? :p

[mortensen]

I believe there are two versions, VisualStudio.NET Enterprise and Visual Studio .NET Professional. The difference between them is the features and the price I think, but I've only even heard of VisualStudio the other day and so don't know how they differ.

[Jackalo]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/prodinfo...fo/overview.asp

[Jackalo]

Better link...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/prodinfo...se/features.asp

This time, it has purty circles to show the differences.

[BarryJ]

Enterprise is like the Deluxe version - it has a bunch of crap most people will never need and is more or less a waste of money. I have pro (of the old version, not .net, sadly) and a friend of mine has enterprise - the differences seem to be really small and he had never used any of the extra features.

[DjmUK]

Basically it's like the difference between "WinXP Home" & "WinXP Pro"...just little bits added in the more overpriced expensive version.

[Rudy]

actualy the difference is way less than winxp home and pro, cuz the difference between pro and home is quite big

[Guspaz]

I'm going to have to dissagree with everyone here saying the difference between standard and enterprise edition is minor.

I don't know about Visual Studio .net, but comparing Visual C++ 6, I can tell you the difference.

In VC++ 6 standard edition, you don't get ANY compiler optimizations. In Enterprise edition, you do. So Enterprise edition produces programs roughly 50% faster and 50% smaller programs.

Now, I don't know about you people, but that is NOT a minor difference to me.

Regards, Guspaz.

[jebus]

Actually Enterprise Architect is the highest level edition. Go see one of the links above to see the details of each edition.

[Guspaz]

I never said there weren't. I'm just comparing Visual C++ 6 Standard to Visual C++ 6 Enterprise (Neither of which are on those pages, I'm not talking .net here).

Regards, Guspaz.

[neos]

is there a vs.net standard, cause I cant fork out $1000!?

[joshbrown]

if i remember right, you can produce applications with enterprise edition and sell them without royalty to microsoft. with any other version, you must pay a royalty to microsoft for each program sold, so if you're producing applications with the enterprise edition, it does come with the extra tools and things that a professional application would use such as optimizations and things.